Calvin Coolidge actually said...

"If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else."

"I have no information relative to proposed legislation about loans on securities."

"I don't know of any particular analysis that General Jadwin has made of the flood control bill that went through the House."

"I can not approve the principle of authorizing an appropriation for national defense unless the sums appropriated are to be expended under the immediate direction and supervision of those charged with..."